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Red background with repeated black text '3 chris 3' and white heart stacks of varying heights.

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Red background with repeated black text '3 chris 3' and white heart stacks of varying heights.

Red background with repeated black text '3 chris 3' and white heart stacks of varying heights. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • heart stacks change height across positions

Animation Summary

Heart stacks vary in height across positions: single heart (top-left), two hearts (top-middle), three hearts (top-right), four hearts (middle-left), five hearts (middle-middle), four hearts (middle-right), three hearts (bottom-left), two hearts (bottom-middle), one heart (bottom-right).

Composition

  • repeated text blocks
  • heart stacks to left of text
  • partial gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

Red background with repeated black text '3 chris 3' in a grid layout. White heart stacks appear to the left of each text block, with stack heights varying across positions: single heart (top-left), two hearts (top-middle), three hearts (top-right), four hearts (middle-left), five hearts (middle-middle), four hearts (middle-right), three hearts (bottom-left), two hearts (bottom-middle), one heart (bottom-right). The rightmost column's bottom-right cell is partially obscured by a gray rectangle. All text and hearts are rendered in a pixelated style.

Description

  • Red background with repeated black text '3 chris 3' and white heart stacks of varying heights.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background black text hearts
  • 3 chris 3 heart stacks
  • pixelated hearts
  • varying heart stack heights

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid hearts

Visible Text

  • 3 chris 3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text '3 chris 3'
  • white heart stacks
  • varying heart stack heights
  • pixelated style
  • gray rectangle obscures bottom-right corner

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090326143021823794578
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
354 bytes
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/39/39e42e2a8f5103bd1c6a5090bb99ead8cf61146eab930fe7a757b9643c69b624.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
39e42e2a8f5103bd
SHA-256
39e42e2a8f5103bd1c6a5090bb99ead8cf61146eab930fe7a757b9643c69b624
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:44 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073110

OpenAI category scores

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Red background with repeated black text '3 chris 3' and white heart stacks of varying heights.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 04:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,198 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 755

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • heart stacks change height across positions (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • heart stacks change height across positions

Animation Summary

Heart stacks vary in height across positions: single heart (top-left), two hearts (top-middle), three hearts (top-right), four hearts (middle-left), five hearts (middle-middle), four hearts (middle-right), three hearts (bottom-left), two hearts (bottom-middle), one heart (bottom-right).

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • repeated text blocks
  • heart stacks to left of text
  • partial gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

Red background with repeated black text '3 chris 3' in a grid layout. White heart stacks appear to the left of each text block, with stack heights varying across positions: single heart (top-left), two hearts (top-middle), three hearts (top-right), four hearts (middle-left), five hearts (middle-middle), four hearts (middle-right), three hearts (bottom-left), two hearts (bottom-middle), one heart (bottom-right). The rightmost column's bottom-right cell is partially obscured by a gray rectangle. All text and hearts are rendered in a pixelated style.

Description

  • Red background with repeated black text '3 chris 3' and white heart stacks of varying heights.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red background black text hearts
  • 3 chris 3 heart stacks
  • pixelated hearts
  • varying heart stack heights

Objects

  • hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated grid hearts

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • 3 chris 3

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black text '3 chris 3'
  • white heart stacks
  • varying heart stack heights
  • pixelated style
  • gray rectangle obscures bottom-right corner
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20090326143021823794578
Archive entry
20090326143021823794578.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090326143021823794578.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090326143021823794578.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016